the sun was setting there was a flash of fire, and lo! a smoking furnace and lmaps of fire passed between the halved parts. 18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying, 19"To they seed I will give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates, the Kenites and the Kenezites, and the Kedmonites and Chettites and the Pherezites and the Raphaeims and the Amorites and the Chananites and the Evites and the Gergesites and the Jebusites.
XVI.Sill Sara, the wife of Abram, did not bear him children; 2so having an Egyptian servant whose name was Agar, Sara sadi to Abram, Behold the Lord hath shut me up that I may not bear. 3Go in therefore to my maid that I may have children by her. And Abream hearkened to the voice of Sara. And Sara the wife of Abram took Agar her Egyptian maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 4And he went in unto Agar and she conceived. And whe she saw that she was with child, her mistress was contemptible in her sight. 5Whereupon Sara said to Abram, I am injured on thy account. I gave thee this maid of mine into thy bosom, and when seeth that she is with child, I am contemptible in her sight. 6God judge between me and thee. And Abram said to Sara, Behold thy maid is in thy hands, treat her as it seemeth good to thee. Thereupon Sara treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence. 7But an angel of the Lord found her at the fountain of water in the wilderness - at the fountain in the way to Sour. 8And the angel of the Lord said to her, Agar, thou servant of Sara, whence comest thou and whither art thou going? And she said I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sara. 9And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return ot thy mistress and submit to her authority. 10Moreover the angel of the Lord said to her, I will multiply thy seed so that it shall not be numbered on account of the multitude of it. 11Futhermore the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold thou art with child, and thou shalt bear a son and shalt call his name Ismael; for the Lord hath hearkened to thy affliction. 12He will be a wild man. His hands will be against all, and the hands of all, agaisnt him. 13And he shall dwell in front of all his brethren." So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "Thou the God who lookest upon me;" for said
